In the 41st Eurovision Song Contest: Eimear Quinn for Ireland wins singing "The Voice" in Oslo.
The X Prize Foundation officially launched the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a ground breaking competition designed to stimulate private space exploration
This was the fourth victory for Ireland in just five years.
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The X Prize Foundation officially launched the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a ground breaking competition designed to stimulate private space exploration, which was ultimately won in 2004 by Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne.
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 (equivalent to $20,048,801 in 2024) prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
It was modelled after early 20th-century aviation prizes, and aimed to spur development of low-cost spaceflight.